National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths on April 29 arrested Riyas Abubaker, 29, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala for his links with terrorist involved in bomb blasts that killed about 400 people in Sri Lankan.
Reports suggest NIA has traced his links with IS recruiters Abubaker Siddiq and Ahmed Arafat both hailing from Kasaragod in Kerala. Riyas’ Facebook posts reveal his deep-seated sympathies for Islamist forces and the CPI(M). There is an allegation that many Islamic radicals have penetrated into the CPI(M) to resist BJP. The RSS alleges that CPI(M) has outsourced killings to such people who are trained in using weapons and are brutal in execution.
NIA has found that Riyas has links with IS terrorist Abdul Rasheed Abdulla who lives underground. He has admitted this, says the press release issued by NIA. Riyas carries out online link with Abdul Khayyum, the accused in the Valapattanam IS case.
It is also alleged that Riyas has watched and propagated the videos of the speeches of Sahran Hashim, the mastermind behind the Sri Lanka blasts.
NIA officials said Riyas had admitted that he wished to carry out suicide blasts in Kerala. He will be produced before the NIA court on April 30. He has reportedly said during the NIA interrogation that he got instructions from the Keralites who fled to Afghanistan and Syria to join IS. It is reported that the IS recruitments in Kerala are as per the instructions from IS terrorist Adulla Rashid. NIA probe into the links between Riyas and Rashid and the exchanges of messages between them.
There are reports that NIA raids continue in Kerala in connection with the SL blasts. Ten men from different districts of Kerala are being interrogated. It is found that they have links with the IS sleeper cells involved in IS recruitments. They are taking the recruits abroad for employment and then take them to the IS camps. NIA interrogated suspects from Tamil Nadu also.
According to reports, one man from Kundara in Kollam district was also taken into custody. Several places in the districts of Ernakulum, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod are under the surveillance of Central Intelligence. Kochi and Chennai units of NIA carried out raids in Velloor, Chennai, Tirunelveli, Madura and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Surveillance has been stepped up in places where migrant labourers are in good numbers. It is in the light of the rumours that Kashmiris have moved to several parts of the state with forged documents.
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated that Kerala was turning a nursery of terrorism. But, immediately CPI(M) leaders came out to oppose him. “PM insulted the state” was their cry. Because, they cannot tolerate the bitter truths.
A few months ago CM Pinarayi Vijayan denied the reports that his government had asked the Centre to ban Popular Front. According to him, if any organisation needs to be banned it is the RSS.
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